restrict number of characters in a field?

[Ben Rubinstein]

On 27/7/06 03:03, Dar Scott wrote:
> 
> Except for typed character U with an umlaut or E with an acute accent on 
> OS X and probably other characters with accent marks.  At least on my 
> keyboard (US).
> 
> This is bug 1147, which for some reason is marked fixed.
> 
> This leak of keyboard typing to the field is a serious (or at least 
> embarrassing) problem for 'ask password' and casual implementations of 
> password dialog boxes.
> 
> It is probably a problem with many applications that use xxxxKeyDown.

Yikes!  Thanks Dar, I didn't know this.  It's a nasty one, since I can't see 
any workaround.

Interestingly the behaviour has changed a bit between 2.6.1 and 2.7.2, but not 
fixing this bug.  I've added a report to BZ 1147 confirming that this is still 
a bug in 2.7.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4 - but I can't re-open the bug, only Klaus or 
someone at RunRev can.

Klaus - could you re-open this bug please?

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